THE NIGHT THE BELLS RANGThe last year of World War I (1918) is an eventful one for Vermont farm boy Mason as he helps with the chores, tries to get along with his little brother, and sees an older bully go off to the war.

RUTHIE’S GIFTJust before the beginning of World War I, 8-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.

1998

147 p.

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas

FLORENCE ROBINSONTHE STORY OF A JAZZ AGE GIRL1919. Unable to endure the discrimination in his small Mississippi town when he returns home from serving in France during World War I, Flo's father moves the family to Chicago, where jazz symbolizes the freedom he hopes they will find.Just before the beginning of World War I, 8-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.

1997

123 p.

Ingold, Jeanette

PICTURES, 1918Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, 15-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort, contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her horizons through her pursuit of photography.

1998

152 p.

Levine, Beth Seidel

WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AGAINThe World War I Diary of Simone SpencerDear America seriesTeenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York Society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.

2002

143 p.

Little, Jean

HIS BANNER OVER MEFlora's parents are missionaries in Thailand so Flora, aged seven, is sent to live with an aunt and uncle she hardly knows. Then World War I begins, her beloved brothers enlist and leave her as well. This story of the war's effect on a young girl is based on the true story of the author's mother.

1995

207 p.

Little, Jean

GOODBYE, BILLY RADISHIn 1917, as the United States enters World War I, 10-year-old
Hank sees change all around him in his western Pennsylvania steel
mill town and feels his older Ukrainian friend Billy drifting apart from him.

1992

137 p.

Montgomery, Lucy Maude

RILLA OF INGLESIDEAnne Shirley's daughter, Rilla, looks forward to her first dance and her first kiss. But challenges await irrepressible Rilla when a far off war endangers the happy world of Ingleside.

1989

277 p.

Voight, Cynthia

TREE BY LEAF A father’s return home following World War I creates problems for his family, especially for 12-year-old Clothilde, who struggles to accept his horrible disfigurement and opposes her mother’s plan to sell Clothilde’s land, a peninsula off the coast of Maine, to help pay the family’s expenses.